Couples will now be able to eternalize their love by attaching locks to a new sculpture at Queen Elizabeth Park.
Love in the Rain is the name of the 15-foot love locks sculpture that has been approved by Vancouver Park Board.
Artist Bruce Voyce was commissioned to design the piece; in the past 10 years Voyce has collaborated with many Lower Mainland municipalities to produce site-specific public art work.
“I feel that art has transformative power; it can open our minds and hearts,” says the artist in a report submitted to the board.
“Public art can shape our shared spaces into places of inspiration and connection.”
Love in the Rain will be built in the look-out above the Quarry Garden.
The sculpture will be made from four and a half meter wire frames, designed to support the weight of several thousand locks.
“Love has no boundaries and therefore the human forms in the sculpture have been left both ageless and genderless, locked together in an everlasting embrace,” reads the proposed concept.
Keys will be collected through a box on site to be later melted to make part of future sculpture.
Couples used to attach their locks to the railings of the Burrard bridge but were removed in 2013 over fears of structural damage.
The cost of the sculpture has not been announced, but it is expected to be completed by August 2016.